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Bought an AirPort Express today. Plugged it directly into my cable modem and after a few moments got a solid green light. My windows XP machine picks up the Apple Wireless network no problem. My mac, running Tiger, however, regardless of how much fiddling I do, will not see the AirPort Express.
I am running the latest OS X (10.4.5). I installed the AirMac and iTunes software included with the AE on CD.
Neither the Airport Setup assistant nor the airport menu in the menu bar picks up the AE. I thought I might have a bought a dud but since the windows machine picks up the AE without issue it must be a setting on my powerbook.
I've used countless wireless networks before (including with this cable modem) on my mac without any problem.
Any idea what might be causing this problem?
Thanks.

Frank,
That was it. I connected to the airport utility with my XP box and looked at the settings -- it was above channel 11. I think what happened is the following:
I initially plugged my AE into the ethernet at my office which has several wireless networks floating about. The AE probably automatically configured itself to the next lowest channel which happened to be above 11. And because of that my Airport card couldn't pick it.
Why is it that Airport cards can't detect networks on higher channels?
Regardless, I reset the channel manually on the XP box and now everything is working perfectly. Thanks guys for all the input.
C

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